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Dale Goronel had reason to be red-faced. He was caught trying to shoplift a bottle of vodka. But not exactly red-handed. ''Unbeknownst to him, his fly was undone and the top of the vodka bottle was clearly visible and hanging out'' of his trousers, said Constable Tricia Kean. Goronel, 30, is charged with theft under $200.

Two suspects are being questioned about a Bank of America robbery Friday afternoon in Poinciana, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. A lone robber walked into the bank on South Doverplum Avenue at 2:35 p.m. and demanded cash after drawing a gun. The robber fled with an undisclosed amount, according to the sheriff's office. The robber drove away in a car, which deputies found a short time later at a home on Trophy Lane. The residence was less than 0.3 miles from the bank.

SO PRESIDENT Clinton spoke before a group of clerics and stated that he was thankful that the American people are willing to forgive him for his "mistake" in the "Thong Gate" affair. I, for one, am getting tired of people, both in and out of public life, saying, "I made a terrible mistake," whenever they are caught in some perverted or illegal act. I always thought that a mistake was made if someone, while thinking that he or she is doing the right thing, gets the wrong result; i.e., one adds two plus two and gets five.

State biologists captured a mother bear defending her three cubs in a Longwood neighborhood early this morning and relocated the bears to the Ocala National Forest, according to officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Residents along Briar Cliff Drive, a subdivision just north of State Road 434 near Longwood, called FWC on Tuesday to say that the bear was sitting at the base of a tree while her three cubs were climbing the branches of the tree. The sow appeared to have lunged at a resident who walked too close to the tree.

I have found, in rearing four children, that children lie for two main reasons: 1. They are embarrassed by what they did, and 2. They are afraid of the punishment that will occur from their actions. We have a president and a vice president who have taken lying to a new art form. Their motives for lying are the same as a child's: I've been caught, and now something is going to happen. It is time the voters take stock of this inappropriate behavior and hold them accountable for their actions.

SNOW HILL, Md. -- Two tourists who disappeared on a Memorial Day trip to the beach were shot to death, dismembered, placed in black plastic bags and dumped in a Delaware trash bin, a woman charged in the case has told police. Erika and Benjamin Sifrit, both 24, were ordered held without bail Monday on two counts of murder in the killings of Martha Crutchley, 51, and her boyfriend, Joshua Ford, 32, of Virginia. The Sifrits, of Altoona, Pa., were caught breaking into the merchandise store of a restaurant in Ocean City, Md., on Friday morning.

JODI GOETHE of Mims caught the largest red snapper ever off Port Canaveral by a woman angler, according to Capt. Jack Rinehart of Captain Jack's. Her red snapper weighed 34 pounds, 2 pounds less than the 36-pound port record snapper caught in 1983. She caught the snapper while jigging the deep offshore reefs with a 16-ounce artificial S&S Glow Worm in 220-foot water near the edge of the Cones. The week before, she caught a 32-pound gray grouper in the same area.CANOE TRIPS SCHEDULED FLORIDA SPORT Paddling Club has scheduled several trips in July.

CHICAGO POLICE tagged two men trying to steal home plate from Comiskey Park on Friday as part of their effort to keep fans from carrying away the nation's oldest ballpark before it closes for good this month. The pair was caught trying to slip out of the park on the city's South Side shortly after 1 a.m. Friday. Game-day fans have been even bolder. They've tried hiding in departing crowds with chairs - even bathroom fixtures - under their arms, ''anything that's not nailed down,'' said Dominic Rizzi, chief of security at Comiskey.

A CONGRESSIONAL report released Sunday shows a growing number of children, especially blacks and Hispanics, locked in poverty. A House Democrat who heads a committee on families sees little relief. ''We're launching millions of children on courses of failure,'' said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., pointing to rising numbers of children who are living in families with incomes under the poverty level. The childhood poverty rate rose from 15 percent in 1970 to more than 18 percent in 1980 and more than 22 percent in 1983 before dropping to 20.5 percent in 1986.

Two-high school students were arrested Monday for painting swastikas on the home of Denmark's chief rabbi, police said. The teen-agers were caught as they were about to paint on the walls of the Copenhagen synagogue, criminal inspector Joergen Frederiksen said. Police found several swastikas daubed on the house of Chief Rabbi Bent Melchior. Frederiksen said the two were charged with ''vandalism of political character'' and released.

LEESBURG — A 51-year-old man wanted for first-degree murder in a Washington state cold case dating to 1993 was captured 3,000 miles away Thursday in Lake County. James Edward Mitchell was arrested by an eight-member U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force team, including one Lake deputy, after officials from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department in Washington notified Leesburg police of the suspect's possible whereabouts, Lake sheriff's Sgt. Jim Vachon said. Mitchell was found at the Tires Plus shop on U.S. Highway 27-441, getting his car washed, Vachon said.

A woman already on probation for child abuse was arrested early Wednesday after Daytona Beach police said they found her sitting on a curb with a baby strapped to her chest and cocaine in her diaper bag. Police were called to South Martin Luther King Boulevard at 3:20 a.m. after a woman told officers Bobbre Williams asked if she could buy her crack-cocaine, an arrest report said. About the same time, another woman called the Department of Children and Families after she allegedly saw Williams with her infant, smoking crack and drinking alcohol, the report said.

The second of two escaped inmates who walked away from a state work-release center this week in Kissimmee was captured Thursday evening, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office Sixto Martinez-Rodriguez, who sports a "Smile Now, Cry Later" tattoo, was picked up at an undisclosed location, records show. Martinez-Rodriguez, 26, and Claudio Poillot, 38, disappeared at 5:40 a.m. Tuesday when they were supposed to walk from the state Department of Corrections center on Michigan Avenue to their jobs at a construction company on East Carroll Street, records show.

A man who tried to flee the scene of an accident on Thursday night didn't get very far thanks to some nearby citizens in East Orlando, police say. According to Orlando police, the driver was traveling north in the 1600 block of Bruton Boulevard around 9 p.m. at a high rate of speed when his vehicle went into the front yard of home. He crashed through a fence and hit two vehicles parked in the driveway, police said. The driver then ran away from the vehicle but was caught by on-lookers.

Sounds of a courtroom dispute - including throwdown threats - between a Brevard County judge and an assistant public defender were caught on video Monday, floridatoday.com is reporting. Off camera, Judge John Murphy punched Assistant Public Defender Andrew Weinstock in the head, Public Defender Blaise Trettis said. Read the full story at Florida Today .

WASHINGTON — Partisan gridlock has famously prevented big-ticket legislation such as immigration reform from getting through Congress, but Central Florida's delegation has found that even more modest bills are having trouble, too. Take the legislation filed by U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, to transfer a historic Miami courthouse to Miami Dade College. The David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, vacant since 2008, is costing taxpayers $1.2 million a year to maintain without any benefit, Mica says.

A man on the run from authorities in Orlando was arrested by Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies after he tried to stab his sister and her family over the weekend, authorities said. He remained in the Hillsborough County jail Wednesday. Bail had not been set. Sheriff's deputies said they were called to 5214 Pine Rocklands Ave. in Lithia late Sunday night after a woman reported her brother had threatened her and her family with a knife. When deputies arrived, the man, identified as Kenneth Randall Shows, 50, ran off. A tracking dog was brought in find him and a helicopter flew overhead, deputies said.

A driver faces several charges after he led police on a chase in Marion County on Saturday night. Dash-cam video (above) released Tuesday by the Marion County Sheriff's Office show a black truck weaving through roads and fields. Officers can be heard on the video saying that they are driving through fields. Carl Michael Stiles, 37, of Belleview, now faces a half-dozen charges including driving with a suspended license, fleeing law enforcement officers, and cocaine possession.